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All my life people have been telling me not to get too excited about things. They say, "I don't want you to be disappointed." And the truth is the thing I have so vehemently looked ...read more
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Tiny revolutions in other people's lives, I just can't stop making them. When we got here and had eaten our first meal together I said to our hostess, No, I'll wash up. Because as everybody ...read more
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Christmas edition of the local paper, West Germany. Four pages of articles welcoming the first couple of hundred asylum seekers into the area. Photos of Syrian and Pakistani families lugging their suitcases off the bus ...read more
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I was at a dinner party and came over all poorly. In fact I thought I might throw up and had to kind of bolt from the room. Must've been the Tramadol, an opiate fed ...read more
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One of the world's sweetest men has been reading me snippets from the local paper. There is a photo of an activist dressed as Santa Claus holding up a sign towards unmoved Israeli soldiers at ...read more
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It fascinates me how people invariably preface racist statements with the words, "I'm not a racist or anything, but: [other people are inferior or flawed]." As they say, you have to ignore everything that comes ...read more
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We came today to a small town in West Germany to stay with family, my out-laws, who are champion collectors. Outside the door stands the Christmas tree, an actual tree cut at the throat and ...read more
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How convenient for our struggling Government that a lone imbecile equipped with a gun has showed up in a Sydney cafe at last. It was beginning to seem no one would bother answering their call. ...read more
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Night walk in the late afternoon. There is a large punk stationed outside the supermarket, asking for coins as people emerge from the light within; he is tall, broad, and mighty, wearing a lycra miniskirt ...read more